Question

I am trying to test a logging module which asynchronously writes to a file… the unit test tries to read the log to make sure the written message matches expected. However, I am finding that the asynchronous writes by the module don’t reach the file until after the unit tests are finished, even if I sleep to wait on the file for an arbitrary length of time. I verified that the files aren’t getting closed until the very end by adding a print statement next to the aio_close. What can I do to test this?

        #approximately the way this works:
        aio_open($pathname,
             $flags,
             $mode,
             sub
             {
                 my $fh = shift;
                 aio_write($fh,
                             0,
                             length($log),
                             $log,
                             0,
                             sub
                             {
                                 print "here";
                                 aio_close($fh, sub {});
                             });
             });

Answer 1

Ok, having dug around a bit, I found I can call…

IO::AIO::flush;

That causes all asynchronous buffers to flush prior to execution of my test.